Dumping-car.



No; 836,395. PATENTED NOV. 20, 1906.

B. F. MOORE.

. DUMPING CAR.

APPLICATION FILED JULY25. 1906.

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B. F. MOORE. DUMPING GAR.

APPLICATION FILED JULY25. 1906.

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DUMPING-CAFx.

Application filed July 25,

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BENJAMINE F. Moonn, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Peebles, in the county of Adams and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dumping -Cars,' of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in dumping-cars. Its object is to provide for the ready and effect ive or satisfactory dumping action of the car, as well as its reverse manipulation to normal or loading position, and to accomplish these ends in a simple, economic, and expeditious manner.

Said invention consists of certain struc tural features or instrumentalities, substantially as hereinafter fully disclosed and specifically pointed out'by the claims.

In the accom anying drawings, illustrating the preferre embodiment of my inven tion, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the same, showing the body or receptacle in til-ted or dumping position. Fi 2 is a longitudinal section taken central iy through the parts, with the body or receptacle in normal or upright position. Fig. 3 is a transverse section produced through the chain or cable winding shaft and its gear and through the intergeared and chain or cable equipped shaft for tilting or dumping the car body or receptacle. Fig. 4 is a section produced longitudinally through one of the car-wheel fixed or bolted to axles equipped with the friction-coupling, the clutch, and the sprocket-wheel for actuating the chain or cable for operating the chain or cable winding shaft aforesaid.

In carrying out my invention mount in posltion erably as shown, the central longitudinal or bottom bar or member 2 thereof, preferably of steel, having pivotal or hinge connections 3 with the central longitudinal draw-bar 4, the top of the,car-frame 5 to permit the 'swingin r or tilting of said car body or hopper latera ly/ either way.-

A longitudinal shaft 6, extending the entire length of the frame 5 and suitably journaled in position thereon, is intergeared by the beveled gear-wheels 7 8 with atrans- I suitably verse shaft 9,' likewise: journaled in said frame, which shaft 6 is suitably equipped near its ends with winding-spools 10, around whichare wound intermediate of their lengths chains or cables 11, having their respective ends connected to the car body or hopper Specification of Letters Patent.

the body or hopper 1, pref- Patented Nov. 20, l906j 190a. Serialllo.327.'72.7-

upon opposite sides thereof at suitable points, as will be readily appreciated. Said chains or cables are passed into contact with and guided by pulleys l2, hung in suitable brackets or hangers 13, secured to the under side of the longitudinal draw-bar 4. Suitable chains 15 or equivalents attached to the car-body and to the car-frame 5 serve to re strict the upward movement. of said car-body within required limits, as will be readily understood.

, The shaft 9 has fixed thereto a sprocketpinion 1.4, which is driven by an endless chain or belt 16, with which it is engaged, and which belt or chain also engages and is itself driven by a sprocket-wheel l7, loosely ar ranged or carried upon a wheel-axle of the car for effecting the raising or restoring of the car body or hopper to normal or elevated position after dumpingits load, as will be clearly apparent later. 17 has projecting therefrom a slightlytapered stub or extension 18, adapted to be slid frictionally tight or close within a correspondingly socketed hub-like casting 19, keyed or fixed upon said car-axle, these thus forming a friction-couplin g.

A clutch 20 is suitably arranged upon the car-axle aforesaid for controlling said friction-coupling, comprising two members 21 22, interposed between the sprocket-wheel l7 and a collar 23, fixed to said axle, one hav ing its arm 24 suitably connected to a fixed oint-as for instance, the draw-bar 4-upon its lower side, and the other clutch member having its arm 25 connected by a link 26 to a manually-actuated lever 27, suitably pivoted at its lower end to the end of the carframe 5 and suitably controlled in its movement as it is actuated by a kee 'er or staplelike contrivance 28, through wiiich it passes The clutch members 21 22 have upper and alower oppositely-inclined or spiral half clutch-faces 29 29, opposed half clutch-faces of the two members having their corresponding inclinations facin each other. Accordingly the upper and Tower haif clutch-faces have their wider terminals presented upward and downward, respectively, whereby as said members are turned one against or upon the other said upward and downward presented terminals will finally serve as I stops for restricting or limiting the further movement of the actuated clutch member during which movement of the latter,

and which latter is secured to the car-frame.

Said sprocket-wheel .per actuating driven ever, the sprocket-wheel, wltn its coupling stub or extension, will be forced requisitely along the car-axle to efi'ect frictional enga e v ment between said stub or extension and t e socket portion 19, fixed to said car-axle, thus providing for coupling these parts together. Said parts when thus coupled together provide, it is obvious, for utilizing the action of the car-axle for winding the car body or hopchains or cables upon the spools of the shaft-6 in returning said car body or hopper to its normal or upright position after having been tilted or dum ed in dischargin its contents. The half 0 utchfaces 29 0 each clutch member are bolted l together in any suitable way, preferably as shown.

I claim 1. A dump-car employing a pivoted or tilting body /portion or hopper, a chain or cable winding shaft for actuating said hopper or body portion and a 'transverse sh'aft cm a car-axle, said shafts being intergeared' 2. A dump-car employing a pivoted or tilting body portion or hopper, a chain or cable winding shaft for actuating said body portion, a transverse shaft having a sprocketpinion, a car-axle having a sprocket-wheel thereon, an endless drivingbelt engaging said sprocket pinion and sprocket wheel, said shafts being intergeared, and means for efiecting the shipping of said sprocket-wheel into operative engagement with said caraxle.

3. A dump-car emyillofing a pivoted or tiltingbody portion or (Tpp'r, means for actuating said body portion or hopper, a coup- I necte thereto actuating means, said clutch members having up er andlower oppositelyinclined or spiral hali-faces, with corresponding half-faces opposed to each other and upward and downward presented terminals of said half-faces effective for mutual engagement;

-In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification inthe presenceof two SllbSCIlblIlg W tnesses.

BENJAMINE F. MOORE.

Witnesses:

J. R. B. KESSLER,

' J. S. BROOMHALL. 

